[Distutils] a plea for backward-compatibility / smooth transitions

[Nick Coghlan]

On 30 July 2013 17:33, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> And in case it's not obvious, I think this is important. We need to have
> this sort of debate, certainly, but it won't happen without someone
> advocating (and implementing!) the changes, so many thanks for being that
> person and putting up with the flak.

Part of the idea of having myself and Richard in the approval chain
for packaging ecosystem and PyPI changes is to encourage people to get
angry at *us* for saying "Yes, let's do that" when things break,
rather than getting mad at the people actually volunteering to do the
work needed to improve the Python community's software distribution
infrastructure.

That's the plan, anyway, even if it isn't always all that effective in
practice :(

Cheers,
Nick.

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